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A Karen here, there and everywhere
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ELEVEN KARENS
By Peter Lefcourt
Simon & Schuster. $24.
A funny thing happens to novelists when they start getting paid to
write screenplays. The Hollywood work is so much more lucrative, and
so much faster, that they have to find a way to justify the long,
lonely haul of a novel. They tend to err in opposite directions.
Either they proclaim that their fiction accomplishes things they
could never do in a script, which tends to make the novels longer and
more lavish in descr...
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What's in a Name?
The Washington Post
; ELEVEN KARENS By Peter Lefcourt Simon & Schuster. 223 pp. $24 A funny thing happens to novelists when they start getting paid to write screenplays. The Hollywood work is so much more lucrative, and so much faster, that they have to find a way to justify the long, lonely haul of a novel. They tend
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Women come to life in one man's stories
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Women come to life in one man's stories By CURT SCHLEIER Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, December 29, 2002 Eleven Karens. By Peter Lefcourt. Simon & Schuster. 240 pages. $24. Writing funny is difficult. Writing funny and conveying an underlying seriousness is a gift. That is what Peter
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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FICTION; So many Karens, so little time; The middle-aged narrator of the "Eleven Karens" stories recalls life, love and laughter.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Curt Schleier Special to the Star Tribune Writing funny is difficult. Writing funny and conveying an underlying seriousness is a gift. Peter Lefcourt has the gift, and he has shown it time and again in books ( The Dreyfus Affair and Di & I ) and in TV scripts. (He was the creative force
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 "Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)")
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`Eleven Karens' by Peter Lefcourt; Simon and Schuster ($24).
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)
; Byline: James Ward Lee Eleven Karens is funny, clever, imaginative and slight. It will neither change your life nor give you nightmares. It will, however, provide some hours of entertainment. The cover proclaims the book a novel, but it is really a series of linked tales by an unnamed narrator who
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`Eleven Karens' by Peter Lefcourt; Simon and Schuster.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Byline: James Ward Lee Eleven Karens is funny, clever, imaginative and slight. It will neither change your life nor give you nightmares. It will, however, provide some hours of entertainment. The cover proclaims the book a novel, but it is really a series of linked tales by an unnamed narrator who
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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25 YEARS FOR SLAYING NEAR UW ANGER, ANGUISH IN COURT AS SENTENCE IS PASSED IN STABBING.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Byline: TRACY JOHNSON P-I reporter A Seattle man was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday in a crowded King County courtroom, where emotions ran high and the slain man's tearful family tried to explain their loss. Meschak Moondance Lefcourt hung his head as relatives of Samuel Raught, the
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DANIEL LEFCOURT
The Village Voice
; Pop rocks: The clever, idiosyncratic debut of an artist who happens to make paintings DANIEL LEFCOURT Taxter & Spengemann 504 West 22nd Street Through December 24 . LIKE A ROCK Daniel Lefcouit is a non-painter's painter. He's an artist who happens to make paintings -although maybe this could be
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Brits Are in a Huff Over Novel About Di
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK Peter Lefcourt is taking some major-league criticism these days, and it isn't for his book about two baseball players falling in love with each other in the middle of a pennant race. Lefcourt, whose 1992 novel The Dreyfus Affair used a love affair to skewer major-league baseball and
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Lang steps up to the plate.(Brief Article)
Daily Variety
; Producer Andrew Lang has optioned Peter Lefcourt novel The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story and hired Lefcourt to write the script. Novel concerns a married all-star shortstop who, in the heat of a pennant race, falls in love with his team's second baseman. As the double play combination goes public,
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FBI DNA Lab Biased, Lawyers' Group Says; Internal Agency Memos Include References to Improper Procedures
The Washington Post
; The FBI's DNA laboratory, which last month claimed a new degree of scientific certainty in evaluating crime specimens, is rife with incompetence and routinely biases its findings toward the prosecution, according to an organization of defense lawyers. FBI memos, obtained through the Freedom of
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